The Hugo Awards 2025

"Bradley pulls off a rare feat. The Ministry of Time doesn't stoop to easy answers and doesn't devolve into polemic. It's a smart, gripping work that's also a feast for the senses. An assassination, moles, questions of identity and violence wreak havoc on our happy lovers and the bubble they create in London. Yet our affection for them is as fresh and thrilling as theirs is for one another... An edgy, playful and provocative book that's likely to be the most thought-provoking romance novel of the summer. " – Lauren LeBlanc, Los Angeles Times

"A dissident is condemned to dangerous work on a distant world containing mysterious ruins from a vanished alien society... a vivid illustration of how suspicion can undermine both an authoritarian regime and any potential resistance to that regime. In this novel, a lack of honesty and poor communication can literally kill. But at the same time, all talk and no action is no path to success, either... A savagely satirical take on the consequences of repressive doctrine and the power of collective action." – Kirkus Reviews

"This is a fast-paced and gloriously weird novel, full of explosive shenanigans and touching sentiment. It also manages to be an exploration of the queerness and the surprising fragility of monstrous bodies, as well as their resilience... a remarkably accomplished debut." – Liz Bourke, Locus Magazine

"I loved everything about A Sorceress Comes to Call... The novel is witty and darkly humorous, and I found it perfectly paced. It also has the same sort of folk horror and violence one would expect from a retelling of a Grimm fairy tale... Despite the very dark places Kingfisher goes in A Sorceress Comes to Call, there are numerous laugh-out-loud moments like that one, which would make this novel appeal to anyone with a dark sense of humour." – Fiona Denton, Grimdark Magazine

"Service Model is an existential novel as much as it’s a work of science fiction... It’s a novel about meaning and the impossibility of meaning; it’s a work in which characters wander from location to location, encountering logical absurdities, desperately trying to make a place for themselves in a wasteland... It’s often funny, especially when Charles’s sidekick the Wonk shows up, an unorthodox robot more interested in convincing Uncharles (she renames him) of the virtue of free will than in following protocol." – Christian P. Haines, Ancillary Review of Books

"A thoroughly satisfying delight from start to finish. If you, like me, enjoy an animating nonsexual relationship between a brilliant, eccentric woman and a devoted and highly competent man, this book is a cornucopia." – Amal El-Mohtar, The New York Times